Clamour for a Handful of Rice – Sonnet Mondal

Description

In Clamour for a Handful of Rice, Sonnet Mondal’s poems areborn out of hunger, a hunger for peace, a hunger for documentation, and a hunger that calls back our ghosts. Where do they go, these ghosts that haunt our lives? Mondal has an answer: With the bombs they have dropped/and the famines they have wreaked,/they will be left with no destination. In these poems, hope is a bullet-cracked mirror, and the dead point to those who kill and to those who resist to kill, their open mouths a poem starving for justice.